Neighbours - reduce household noise
Respect your neighbours and help reduce the impact of noise by:
- Reduce your home noise such as music/tv volumes
- Notify neighbours if you are doing any work with noisy equipment
- Keep your pet active and happy, to avoid excessive barking or whining
- Conduct any necessary noise within the allowed hours set-out in the noise by-law
- Let your neighbours know when you are in the planning stages of a construction project
Contractors - make a plan
- Please conduct construction noise during standard working hours.
- prohibited weekdays between 9pm and 7am the following day
- prohibited on Sundays except between the hours of 12noon and 6pm
- Identify where noise issues may occur on your worksite. What preventative measures can be done to manage noisy machines and activities?
- Consult neighbours and residents that may be affected by the noise. Fill out a notice of construction/road works form. Or, use a site board with info posted about the work, and who to contact.
- If construction will be performed outside of standard working hours, please submit a noise by-law exemption application form.
Noise concerns
Impacted by neighbourhood noise? We recommend talking with your neighbours and reviewing the noise by-law before you submit a complaint [Cloudpermit] to the by-law department.
Noise by-law
The noise by-law has been revised to reflect:
- Noise exemptions, respecting special events
- Noise prohibitions by time, read Schedule ‘B’ (link)
- Electronic devices, respecting loud music (prohibited between hours of 11pm and 7am)
- Construction, respecting time and type (prohibited weekdays between 9pm and 7am the following day; prohibited on Sundays except between the hours of 12noon and 6pm)
- Persistent pet noise
- Increased fines